40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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22-27-9
Section 22-27-9 Authority of Department of Environmental Management and Department of Public Health. (a) The Department of Environmental Management shall be the agency with primary regulatory authority over the management of solid waste in the state, except for the collection and transportation of nonhazardous and nonmedical solid waste. The department may exercise the regulatory authority over the permitting and operation of solid waste management facilities necessary to enforce the requirement and purposes of this article. (b) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall have primary regulatory authority over the collection and transportation of solid waste, excluding medical waste and hazardous waste, the management of sanitary waste in septic tanks, excluding landfill disposal, and the management of collection activities including, but not limited to, the provision of collection services by county and municipal governing bodies, participation in local collection systems, the...
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22-30-3
Section 22-30-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter and except where the context prohibits, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Environmental Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by Section 22-22A-6. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by Section 22-22A-4. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. (5) HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may: a. Cause, or significantly contribute to,...
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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling agency, public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by the health department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the collection or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material other than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall be approved by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and United States Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance equal to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of solid wastes, or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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45-43-170.03
Section 45-43-170.03 Solid waste disposal - Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BURNING. No garbage or rubbish containing garbage or other putrescible materials or hazardous wastes shall be burned except in approved incinerators meeting the regulations of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management requirements and air pollution controls as now established or as may later be established. The open burning of rubbish shall be permitted only under sharply controlled circumstances where sanitary landfill or landfill is not feasible and not in proximity to sanitary landfill or landfill operations where spread of fire to these operations may be a hazard in the opinion of the department. (2) DEPARTMENT. Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) EXCEPTION. A person, household, business, industry, or any property owner may store, haul, and...
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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable (generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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22-27-8
Section 22-27-8 Financial assurance. (a) All persons having or requesting a permit for the operation of a municipal solid waste landfill shall establish and maintain financial assurance for proper closure, post-closure care, or corrective action in the form and amount the department specifies by regulation. This requirement is applicable to all municipal solid waste landfills required by federal law or regulations to demonstrate such assurance. (b) All municipal solid waste landfills permitted or to be permitted by the department shall submit financial assurance forms and supporting documents to the department, and such forms and documents shall establish that there is funding to the appropriate levels required by department regulation. The financial assurance mechanism shall be maintained for the life of the municipal solid waste landfill, and for a period of not less than 30 years after closure, unless the owner or operator demonstrates to the director that a period less than 30...
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22-30-17
Section 22-30-17 Manifest. (a) The department shall develop and, acting through the commission, promulgate a manifest. (b) A manifest shall be required to accompany transportation, for off-site storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous waste, provided, however, that regarding bulk shipments by rail or water, a shipping paper may be substituted for the manifest if the shipping paper meets the requirements set out in the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter. The manifest shall be originated by the hazardous waste generator and shall identify the hazardous waste transported, the quantity of such waste, and such other information as the department may require. (c) A copy of each complete manifest shall be forwarded monthly to the department by owners or operators treating, storing or disposing of hazardous wastes received from off-site. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 129, p. 1843, §17; Acts 1984, No. 84-50, p. 57, §1; Acts 1987, No. 87-807, p. 1590, §13.)...
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22-30B-2.4
Section 22-30B-2.4 Restrictions on disposal of hazardous waste; exceptions. No commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste and hazardous substances shall during any calendar year receive and dispose of more than 600,000 tons of waste that cannot be legally disposed of in a solid waste landfill permitted under Subtitle D of RCRA 42 U.S.C. §6941. Provided, however, that the Environmental Management Commission or its designee may allow the disposal of hazardous wastes in excess of the 600,000 ton annual limitation of volume imposed in this section if such action is determined by the Environmental Management Commission or its designee to be necessary to protect human health or the environment in the state. Provided further, if the commission determines that public awareness of environmental matters may be enhanced by special events or if amnesty or similar programs will promote the protection of human health and the environment of Alabama, then it may exempt any wastes so...
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22-27-15
Section 22-27-15 Establishment and review of reduction goals. (a) No later than October 15, 2009, the department shall establish, by rule, a goal for the percentage, on a statewide basis only, of the reduction in the amount of household and commercial solid waste and the time frames for that reduction. Reduction, by means including, but not limited to, recycling, source reduction, waste minimization, reuse, and composting shall be determined at public solid waste disposal or incineration facilities on a statewide, per capita basis. In order to evaluate the statewide efforts, the department shall adopt rules for the determination of the base year data, and reporting requirements by local governing bodies and public solid waste disposal or incineration facilities, to include both the quantity and origin of the solid waste disposed or incinerated at such facilities. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the reduction goals shall emphasize activities prior to the delivery of...
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